Smythe

At the 2020 census, 4,178 Americans bore the surname Smythe — 7,636th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,178
Rank: 7,636th
How common: 1 in 71,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Variant of Smith.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Smythe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.3%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Smythe

Nekoda Smythe-Davis (born 1993)English judoka

People named Smythe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Smythe

Smyth

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.